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Summary: My Favorite Grisham Novel
Review: This is my personal favorite novel, though I might be a little prejudice in this opinion since this was my first. The book is about Rudy Baylor, a desperate-for-a-job lawyer, who stumbles across a case to help a dying boy's family fight against a corrupt insurance company.The story is dramatic and very clever. Grisham makes this one truly about the courtroom and shows that the little guys can beat the big guys. An excellent novel that is very interesting. Like many of Grisham's other novels, this one is a page turner. Very fun to read.
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Summary: Enjoyed It, BUT....
Review: Though it was a bit slow in the beginning, in the end, I enjoyed every minute of it. Like many of Grisham's novel's there's always something more behind it. What disappointed me about the rain maker, is what disappoints me about most Grisham novels, especially this one; The protaganist (Rudy Baylor) always ends up in the same way most characters do. It's a wonderful read though and I would highly recommend it.
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Summary: Just one damn good read
Review: Now I'll be quick. I am a soldier in Iraq. With a lot of time waiting to go on the next mission, I read A LOT!. Once I pick up John's books, I find myself reading until I realize its 2 AM. You have to find a spot and force yourself to put it down. Now in "The Rainmaker", the plot is a quickly laid out, except that it is not what you think. John morphs the young life of Rudy Baylor from that of a new lawyer with a bright future to an ambulance chasing street attorney with everything going wrong. Just when things seem to start to turn, it gets worse. The only thing left, is a few clients with great potential. With Judges on his side, and powerful freinds in the background, Rudy shows the big boys of Corporate Law the new ropes. Okay, not the best review, but hey, I read it in just over 6 hours. I liked every minute of it. Just do me one favor, read John's entire collection, I just can't wait for more to come.
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Summary: Way a go john!
Review: This book is absolutely wonderful , a well written thriller so good i could'nt put it down . you follow a struggling three year law student rudy baylor near gradution almost has his license to practice law, but he needs to pass the painful bar exam to do it. rudy while doing one of his routine classroom workshops for the public for free, he stumbles on to the case of the century , now only if he can stay around to file it. plenty of twists , turns to make it great reading.
P.S. the movie is just as good. Highly recommended.
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Summary: Thoroughly enjoyable
Review: Enough detail and emotion to carry you through. You really get into the characters and the story is great! I hold back 1 star because the firm and a time to kill were a little better.
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Summary: THE RAINMAKER
Review: In his first courtroom thriller since A Time To Kill, John Grisham tells the story of a young man barely out of law school who finds himself taking on one of the most powerful, corrupt, and ruthless companies in America and exposing a complex, multibillion dollar insurance scam. In his final semester of law school Rudy Baylor is required to provide free legal advice to a group of senior citizens, and it is there that he meets his first clients, Dot and Buddy Black. Their son, Donny Ray, is dying of leukemia, and their insurance company has flatly refused to pay for his medical treatments. While Rudy is at first skeptical, he soon realizes that the Blacks really have been shockingly mistreated by the huge company,and that he just may have stumbled upon one of the largest insurance frauds anyone's ever seen, and one of the most lucrative and important cases in the history of civil litigation. The problem is, Rudy's flat broke, has no job, hasn't even passed the bar, and is about to go head - to head with one of the best defense attorney's and powerful industries in America.
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Summary: The Rainmaker
Review: I was mildly dissapointed by this book. I was expecting something suspensful, a thriller, at least something that kept your interest. The meandering storyline was bland at best, with very actual storyline. The only half-way interesting part was in the last three chapters. Everything else in the book is basically just a day in the life of a unsuccessful lawyer. I wouldn't recommend this for someone who's looking for a thriller.
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Summary: Great Book
Review: This is my favorite book in Grishams series. i was hooked from page to page and never wanted to stop reading....Great book for anyone.
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Summary: Great page-turner!
Review: "the Rainmaker" is an exciting tale of young rookie lawyer who's fresh to the business named Rudy Baylor. His first case is defending a couple who's son is dying of lukemia, and the Great Benefit Insurance Company refuses to help them...8 time in a row they deny their claim! Rudy furiously gets on the case. Meanwhile, he's trying to help a young lady get away from her abusive husband. In the complex court case that kind of reminds me the way Tom Clancy writes, Rudy takes the insurance company down in an exciting climax. This is an excellent young adult book and at times it seems you can't put it down. However, I think the language usage leaves something to be considered. Anyway, I give this book an A+.
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Summary: Memphis faire tale
Review: It's about a law student, graduate, then brand new lawyer, Rudy Baylor and how he scrambles to survive in the lawyer
saturated town of Memphis Tenn. Some of the things he does and the endless chain of lucky coincidences were hard
to swallow but it was fun anyway, almost like a fairy tale. Until the last 32 pages and the off the wall 50 million dollar
verdict. That was the last straw. Rudy only sued Great Benefit for 10 million and I figured he get maybe 5. Where the
50 came from I don't know. And how Great Benefit could go bankrupt when just last week in court they were worth
450 million, 100 million of that in cash, I don't know nor believe? And it quickly disintegrated from there.
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